Top Inventors in Maple Grove, MN — 2021

Maple Grove, MN ranks #342 worldwide for total patents filed in 2021, with 413 patents from 207 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Maple Grove, MN include Zhejiang Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Medtronic, Cardiac Pacemakers. That works out to 5.9 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 207 inventors

Rank	Inventor	Primary Company	Patents
1	Yi-Ching Chen	Zhejiang Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co.	26
2	Martin T. Gerber	Medtronic	15
3	Bruce H. KenKnight	Cardiac Pacemakers	11
#4	Sidney A. Higgins	Starkey Laboratories	10
#5	David Guy	King Technology	9
#5	Krzysztof Z. Siejko	Cardiac Pacemakers	9
#7	Huisun Wang	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	8
#7	Pankaj Gupta	Netlogic Microsystems	8
#9	Colton J. Hirman	Caterpillar	7
#9	Kurt R. Thielen	Roku	7
#11	David B. Lura	Medtronic	6
#12	James D. Reinke	Medtronic	5
#12	Hong Cao	St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division	5
#12	QingHui Yuan	Eaton	5
#15	Jacob Lamb	Rockwell Automation	4
#15	Scott R. Stubbs	Cardiac Pacemakers	4
#15	Nikhil M. Murdeshwar	Gyrus Acmi	4
#15	SuPing Lyu	Medtronic	4
#15	Andrew J. Thom	Medtronic	4
#15	Sharon K. Cody	Land O'Lakes	4
#15	John Buan	Aatru Medical	4
#15	Vinod Sharma	Intel	4
#15	Nathaniel S. Doy	Caterpillar	4
#24	Jeffrey Welch	Atritech	3
#24	Chandrashekar Giliyar	Lipocine	3
#24	Cory Grabinger	Honeywell	3
#24	Michael S. Hemry	Caterpillar	3
#24	Gregg Sutton	Atritech	3
#24	Robert N. Squire	Boston Scientific Scimed	3
#24	Kavitha Ganesan	Caisson Interventional	3
#24	Joshua Aaron Smith	Eventyr Outdoors	3
#24	Jeffrey S. Lindquist	Boston Scientific Scimed	3
#24	Cyril J. Schweich, Jr.	Myocor	3
#24	James Murto	Teleflex Life Sciences	3
#24	John Blix	Boston Scientific Scimed	3
#24	Timothy P. Herbert	Inspire Medical Systems	3
#24	Christian J. Fiksen	Gyrus Acmi	3
#24	Todd L. KURTH	Cargill, Incorporated	3
#24	Erik R. Scott	Medtronic	3
#40	Antonia Tsoukatos	Seagate Technology	2
#40	Derek P. Nieuwsma	Caterpillar	2
#40	Vishal Arora	Entrust	2
#40	David John Ackland	—	2
#40	Jeff Welch	Phraxis	2
#40	Stacy Abel	Target Brands	2
#40	Matthew Hart	Boston Scientific Scimed	2
#40	Roy Martin	Lifelens Technologies	2
#40	Dennis Babcock	Galil Medical	2
#40	Raj Mohan Bharadwaj	Honeywell	2
#40	Andrea J. Asleson	Medtronic	2

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